Citations:fachidiot


 * 1990, Christine Brooke-Rose, Verbivore, page 40:
 * So when Dipling started talking about dad showing fascist strains and being moreover in danger of becoming a Fachidiot, Jip jumped in, tho Frieda kept trying to tone it all down and change the subject and telling her husband to stop [...]


 * 1990, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, page 123:
 * There will, that is, among such critical theorists also be a certain amount of specialization but that need not turn them into deformed, alienated specialists suffering from the tunnel vision of the fachidiot.


 * 1994, Nordic Journal of African Studies - Volumes 3-4, page 20:
 * This is gradually making monolithic and professional academic knowledge, once based on single subject specialization as a mode of academic practice predominantly responsible for breeding the fachidiot unfashionable and increasingly difficult to defend in many instances in the programmes of higher education and science in the contemporary times.


 * 1996, Kai Nielsen, Naturalism Without Foundations, page 476:
 * I am neither a historian nor a biblical scholar and am too much of a fachidiot to know whether Engels's historical narrative, particularly in the light of what has been discovered since his time, is a reasonably accurate telling it like it was,


 * 1997, Fathali M. Moghaddam, The Specialized Society: The Plight of the Individual in an Age of Individualism, page 54:
 * Recognizing the tragic consequences of producing more and more Fachidiots. Academics have not realized that they are lagging behind the business world in this regard (of course, traditional biases would lead many academics to shun such a comparison in the first place).


 * 2002, Christopher J. De Jonge, Christopher L. R. Barratt, Assisted Reproductive Technology: Accomplishments and New Horizons (Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521801218), page 114:
 * I also run the risk of turning into a Fachidiot, a narrow-minded technological specialist who cannot foresee the consequences of his work. Fachidiots tend, in turn, to lead to a Schlimmbesserung, a technological socalled improvement that is actually an egregiously inappropriate tinkering that makes things worse (Rheingold, 1988).


 * 2008, Kurt Bracharz, Pantomime vor Blinden: Prosa (ISBN 3708232380), page 145:
 * Die Karte zeigt Franz von Stucks Bild Dissonanz von 1910, auf dem sich ein erwachsener Satyr die Ohren zuhält, weil neben ihm ein Junge - offenbar entsetzlich falsch - Panflöte spielt; Rucker schreibt, er sei „annoyed to have been drawn into this empty discussion with a fachidiot“.